Last of the Neanderthals

Well if you're going to have a last stand I suppose Gibraltar makes for a very dramatic setting. It seems that some Neanderthal-like tools were discovered there and they date a mere 28,000 years ago. Which opens the possibility that homo sapiens spent thousands of years alongside their cousins! It's gettin' hard out there for a hominid!

Researchers Offer a New Date for Neanderthals’ Last Stand
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD | New York Times

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R.I.P. Mate

Steve Irwin 1962 - 2006

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...This is your brain on God

Brain Scan Of Nuns Finds No Single 'God Spot' In The Brain, Study Finds
A new study at the Université de Montréal has concluded that there is no single God spot in the brain. In other words, mystical experiences are mediated by several brain regions and systems normally implicated in a variety of functions (self-consciousness, emotion, body representation).
Via Science Daily

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